Yesterday's Heroes: Compensation and Creative Risk-Taking

Ing-Haw Cheng, Harrison Hong & Jose Scheinkman
Published Date
Copyright 2012
Book: Market Institutions and Financial Market Risk
Book organizers: Mark Carey, Anil Kashyap, Raghuram Rajan & René Stulz
PUBLISHER: Elsevier, Journal of Financial Economics
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Yesterday's Heroes: Compensation and Creative Risk-Taking
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Author(s): Ing-Haw Cheng, Harrison Hong & Jose A. Scheinkman
We study the relationship between compensation and risk-taking among finance firms using a neglected insight from...

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